Wash ,'War Stories'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
What does Jamie Cullum sound like?
Kinda lame cocktail bar jazz. He can certainly play and sing, but is a bit meh.
I disagree on the meh part. I like him a lot. I've compared him to Harry Connick Jr., but poppier.
Really, you could just listen to samples at Amazon.com.
It's a Chinnichap song, IIRC.
Sure is. "Ready Steve?" "Uh-huh..."
you could just listen to samples at Amazon.com
Harry Shearer played Cullum's cover of "The Wind Cries Mary" on Le Show last week & the archive has the whole song. (Click the link to hear the entire show and scroll over to the 8 minute mark.) I'm with Jim on the assessment, but listen & decide for yourself.
Speaking of Le Show, check out this week's clip of the off air (but recorded) chatter between Larry King and the Bushes. Laura: "That was the wild night when everybody was drinking?"
Speaking of "hey, pal, this is the music thread"... David, Hayden & any Charlie Rich and/or Mystery Train fans (the Greil Marcus book, not the Elvis song), I was listening to the Charlie Rich obit set on The Hound and I was really struck by the version of "I Feel Like Going Home" played at the end. I've never heard the version Marcus talks about at length in the book, but was thinking maybe this was it. When the back up singers came in, though, it was clear that this is from the Pictures and Paintings sessions. Granted I haven't listened to the album in a long time, but I really think this is an alternate -- and much better -- version. Maybe I'm wrong and this is the album track -- but I always found that one vaguely disappointing, and this one is so good. Anyway, I strongly recommend clicking the link & listening to it.
Shows I'm going to in upcoming months:
So excited!
The Sweet, huh? That's the version I have, but I couldn't believe it was the original, because, well, it sounds like the Rocky Horror version. Huh. Who knew?
I am going to no shows; having missed Dar Williams at the Birchmere I must observe a period of sulking for a month.
I am going to no shows; having missed Dar Williams at the Birchmere I must observe a period of sulking for a month.
I'm sure she'll be touring Greece this fall. Or was that Nana Mouskouri?
Yeah, I get them confused too.
Yeah, I get them confused too.
It's the glasses.
I'm sure she'll be touring Greece this fall. Or was that Nana Mouskouri?
My mother at one stage, with the glasses she wore and her hairstyle, was a dead ringer for Nana Mouskouri. Which, all things considered, is better than one's father looking like Demis Roussos.
Yes, Tracy Ullman covered "They Don't Know..." but Kirsty MacColl wrote it, and her version of it opens her great compilation Galore.